Pyotr Abrassimov

Pyotr Andreievitch Abrasimov (, ; 1912–2009) was a Soviet politician who became a career diplomat. He served his country as ambassador successively in China, France, Poland and East Germany.

Life Abrasimov as Soviet Ambassador to the GDR at the wreath-laying ceremony in Treptower Park. Berlin, May 8, 1982 Abrasimov was born in Boguszewsk, a recently expanded but still small village in the eastern part of Belarus. The village's economic importance had been much enhanced when the local land-owner agreed to the erection of a station along the new railway line, which had opened in 1902, linking Vitebsk, Žlobin and Orsha to the rapidly expanding rail network of the Russian Empire (which included Belarus). Pyotr Andreievitch's father was a farmer who fought in the First World War and in the ensuing Civil War that followed it in the Russian Empire. In 1933 Abrasimov's own specialty had become the electro-technical industrial sector. By 1939, however, he was attending the Belarusian State University in Minsk, studying history. By the end of the war he had earned four Soviet military medals. The meetings were mediated by the Swedish consul general Sven Backlund.

Back in Moscow he served as chair of the National Committee for Foreign Tourism between 1983 and 1985. Between 1985 and 1986 he served, briefly, as the Soviet ambassador to Japan.

Awards and honours (not necessarily a complete list)

Order of Lenin (twice) Order of the Red Banner Order of the October Revolution Star of People's Friendship (East Germany) Order of the Red Banner of Labour Order of the Patriotic War Order of the Red Star (twice) Order of Karl Marx Order of the Cross of Grunwald (Polish People's Republic) Honorary citizenship of Berlin Honorary citizenship of Żyrardów Hero of the German Democratic Republic Medal "For the Defence of Moscow" Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"